Two held with 4.6 kg of cannabis in a car stopped on Ruta 3 near Trelew
Gendarmes of the Trelew road-safety section stopped a car on Ruta Nacional 3 heading for Rawson and found three rectangular cannabis packages on the floor beside the passenger seat. Field tests confirmed cannabis sativa, 4 kilos 613 grams were seized, and the Rawson federal court ordered both occupants held.
Officers of the Trelew road-safety section, part of the Chubut core squadron of
Gendarmería Nacional Argentina, were running checks on Ruta Nacional 3 when they
saw a vehicle carrying two people towards the city of Rawson.[1]
Searching the car, the gendarmes found three rectangular packages on the floor
on the mat beside the passenger seat, similar to those used to move drugs.[1]Criminalistics and forensic officers ran Narcotest field tests that came back
positive for cannabis sativa.[1]A total of 4 kilos613 grams of cannabis was
seized.[1]
The Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Rawson ordered the drug
confiscated and both occupants detained.[1]
Photos and video
Lead image of the Gendarmería release on the Route 3 stop near Trelew, published without a caption. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional Argentina.Photo details
The release gives no separate date for the stop; 8 May 2022 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The release does not give the kilometre or a named locality on Ruta Nacional 3; coordinates are those of the Trelew town centre at locality precision and the checkpoint may lie outside the city.
Neither occupant is named and no ages are given.
The release does not say whether the two were charged or brought before a judge after the detention.
No street value for the 4.613 kg of cannabis was published.
No second, independent account of this stop was found; the only source is the Gendarmería release.
The release does not say whether the vehicle was also seized, so no vehicle figure is recorded.
The three handout photos on the release carry no captions, so what they show beyond belonging to this case is not established.
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